The Beginner's Guide
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
The Beginner's Guide is a story rich, walking simulator and narration game
developed and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..
Released on October 01st 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.
It has received 21,643 reviews of which 19,048 were positive and 2,595 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 9.75ā¬ on Steam.
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Requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
- Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Intel Express graphics card).
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher required
- Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
Reviews
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I'll keep it short and sweet with a few quick bullet points. 1. You should go into this game as blind as possible. It is a different story the more context about it you have. 2. This game affected me more viscerally than any other. It is the most impactful game I have ever played. 3. This game is especially impactful if you are someone engaged in game development, or any sort of creation. 4. The game lasts ~100 minutes (exactly, if you're me), and feels like a thousand sucker punches to the gut. I cannot recommend it enough. Please play this game.
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I have to thank PirateSoftware for the recommendation. I feel that most people will have a different takeaway upon completing this game. For me, it's realizing that I should be creating things for myself and rather not worry what others will think of it as long as it's something I can be proud of. Lacking the motivation and constantly wondering "does this suck" affected my ability to write and create videos I enjoyed doing. I needed to remember the reason I was doing them was because I liked doing it for me. This was a great experience.
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This game changed my life I am going to tell you the story about how this game changed my life: Like every good story, it requires an introduction, my name is Albert, I was born somewhere, and like many others, I never had a lot of friends, my situation at home was complex, and I ended up being raised by different people. One of those was my dad, and he became my only source of love in this hard, complex and sad world, he was at all effects my superhero. When I was alone at school, he would throw me chips over the fence of the school and would come to see me almost every day he could. When I had a problem, he would just make me feel like those problems did not exist anymore, he was just great. I grew older, and we got a bit distant, I donāt know exactly why, I guess it was because I was a teen and I had to be and edgy boyā¦ he stopped being my hero to become my ābossā. Now I had to work, study, grow up, leave videogames behind, and build a nice future for me. He of course would not say it like this, he would shout and insult me, tell me that I was a lazy bas*ard and that I was worth nothing. At the moment I did not know it, but I craved his love and approval so much, I wanted to feel love again so much, that almost without realizing I started doing what he told me. That sounds kinda normal right? Well, he is pushy, like really pushy, and he did not want me to get a job, he wanted me to study, and he did not want me to study any diploma, he wanted Medicine, he didnāt want me to be any kind of doctor, he wanted me to be and orthopedist or gynecologist. I used to convince myself that it was what I wanted, so I became the number 1of my promotion, I ended up in Harvard because that is what I wanted, and I wanted to work in the USA, I wanted to make millions and work as an orthopedistā¦ I went to college and just in a few weeks those insults became praises of admiration. It felt so rewarding to go back to my dad after a few months and bring him good newsā¦ Dad! I got accepted in Harvard. Dad, I got the best grade in Anatomy!!! Dad! I am going to graduate With Honors!. Dadā¦ Dadā¦ Years passed and I can say I never had enjoyed such a level of complicity with my father. But one day, when I was a few months away from getting my diploma, I started feeling sick. I left with a few friends to spend New Yearās Eve and something was off. All my friends were so excited about were they going to work, and what hospital where they going to applyā¦ But I wasnāt, I was feeling like sh*t. And I decided to leave early the house where staying and drive home. It was a long drive, 10h+ and I just couldnāt figure it out. There was a sense of fear, tiredness, melancholyā¦ I got home and laid in bed for 2 days until I came across this game. I donāt really know what pushed me to play it, but I am lucky I did. This game talks about a guy who does things for approval, this consumes him, and for me, it just clicked!!! I always wanted to make my father happy, he was my hole world, and getting his approval was more important than my own happiness. Without realizing I turned the āI want to become a doctor because it will make my father happyā into āI want to become a doctor.ā I believed it so hard I became and over-achiever, and I thought it was because I wanted to be the best doctor, for personal ambition or whatever, but it was not true, I just wanted to have another reason to call my dad and get a pat in the back again and again and againā¦ Approval it is not like a vaccine that you get once and you are healed, it is like water or oxygen, you need it daily, like a drug that keeps you movingā¦ Now with perspective I believe that I was so f*cked those days because subconsciously I was picturing myself once again taking an important decision and wasting another 6 years of my life doing something I was not passionate about. And for what? I believe a lot of people overestimate the money that that doctors make. Not because the sum it is not juicy, but it is something that drains your life, in so many waysā¦ at least for me it destroyed everything I ever felt passionate aboutā¦ The few months before med school I painted 6 different portraits and like 50 pages of sketches, the next 5 years I did not touch a pencil. I used to love playing videogames and I did not for years. I used to love writing reviews, I had published more than 200, in 5 years I didnāt publish a single one. And well, here I am, writing my very first review in many years. I thought it would be poetical to do it with the game that saved my life, pushed me to for the first time in years take a decision looking into my self and into what makes me happy. I know that for many of you it might be frivolous to say that being a orthopedist or traumatologist would have ādestroyed my lifeā and leaving that behind has saved it. There are people out there are in a lot of pain and suffering while I would be living the dream lifeā¦ Well, I know, maybe I could have had a comfortable life, but I can assure you, It would not have been MY life. It would have been the life of a drug addict, in constant seek for the new recognition, the new praise to my ego. This game made me reflect about who I want to be and what are the things that I want to make my priorities. For those who read this, I donāt know if this game will make you reflect as much as it did to me, all I can tell you that this game was of the best invested 90 minutes of my life. And for the creator, Thank you so much. I donāt know if the decisions I will make will be the best ones, but for the first time in my life I am sure I will take make them for the right reasons. -Albert
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PirateSoftware was not lying when he said to play this game for creative motivation. Literally getting killed for creative things I wanna make or am making and just not finishing the things I've started. Feeling like I'm slipping out of this evens tho I really wanna do it, but no one is saying just 'DO IT' cause I'm that type of person. I got no real reason and tired of giving a real reason to things I wanna do. I just really really wanted to make some Awesome Shit.
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This game is fantastic for getting the machine working again. Highly recommend this for creatives.
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Online players
10
Developer
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Publisher
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Release
01 Oct 2015
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